Sonnymoon: Monk & Rollins on Night Lights

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This week on Night Lights we honor Sonny Rollins' upcoming 75th birthday (Sept. 7, 2005) with "Sonnymoon," a program of Rollins' recordings with piano giant Thelonious Monk. Monk forged a musical friendship with Rollins when the tenor saxophonist was still in his teens, a friendship that eventually produced some of the 1950s' most compelling jazz records. We'll hear selections from

Monk and Rollins' dates for Prestige, their meeting on Monk's Riverside LP Brilliant Corners, and a final studio encounter, recorded for Blue Note in 1957, in which Monk plays musical piano chairs with Horace Silver on the Monk tune "Misterioso."

 

"Sonnymoon" airs Saturday, September 3 at 11:05 p.m. (9:05 p.m. in California, 12:05 NYC time) on WFIU; it also airs earlier that evening at 10 (8 p.m. California time, 11 p.m. NYC time) as Night Lights makes its debut on Evansville's NPR-member station WNIN. You can listen live on either station, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted in the Night Lights archives.

 

Next week: "The Man Before Miles: Freddie Webster."

Edited September 7, 2017 by ghost of miles

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Up for broadcast--and Night Lights' debut--on WNIN in about 10 minutes.

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This program is now archived.

[Guest]

Listened to some of your shows (including this one) during the last weeks and I really liked what I heard

Keep up the good work!

Greetz, Sonny